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New York City, 1831. Passion, medicine and a plan to break the law ... When Doctor William Blackwood, a proper gentleman who prefers books to actual patients, meets retired Navy surgeon Doctor Augustus Hill, they find in each other not just companionship but the chance of pleasure�and perhaps even more. The desire between them is undeniable but their budding relationship is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious patient at New York Hospital. Mr. Moss has been accused of being born a woman but living his life as a man, an act that will see him committed to an asylum for the rest of his life. William and Augustus are determined to mount a rescue even if it means kidnapping him instead. Their desperate plan sets William and Augustus against the hospital authorities and the law. Soon they find themselves embroiled in New York�s seedy underworld, mixed up with prostitutes, spies, and more than a lifetime�s worth of secrets. When nothing is as it seems can they find something real in each other?